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Robert Greene was one of the most successful members of a new
generation of Elizabethan writers who were committed to making a
living for themselves solely by their pens, and his life and career
offer a superlative example of early modern self-fashioning.
Although celebrated by his literary peers for writing prose
romances, moralistic story collections, plays for the popular stage
and pamphlets exposing the criminal underworld of Elizabethan
London, perhaps Greene's greatest creation – and most significant
contribution to sixteenth-century literary history – is his own
persona and office as a professional author. Throughout his
prodigious, eclectic body of writings Greene rarely lets his
readers lose sight of his presence as the …

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1865Robert Greene1Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.